Car Wars
Platform: TI-99/4A
Region: USA
Media: Cartridge
Controller: Joystick
Genre: Racing - Action
Gametype: Licensed
Release Year: 1981
Developer: Texas Instruments
Publisher: Texas Instruments
Players: 1
Programmer: Jim Dramis
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In this combination racing game and maze game, you have to maneuver your race car around the track, clearing the dots from all five lanes. The catch is, there's another car (controlled by the computer) driving around the track, in the opposite direction, bent on stopping you. You have to be quick with the lane changes, or the computer car will crash into you. You start with three cars, and can gain extra cars by clearing all the dots from the track. But watch out! The computer adds an an additional opponent on the third round, and another every second round after that!

Trivia:

This game is a clone of the arcade games Crash! (Exidy, 1979) and Head On (Sega/Gremlin, 1979). Not sure on which actually came out first as both appeared in the arcades the same year. In addition to making its appearance on the TI-99/4A, this game also made its way to the Atari 2600 in 1980, under the name Dodge 'Em.

This was the first game Jim Dramis would program for TI, before going on to create the highly praised space-shooter Parsec.


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